Modal Analysis with Asymptotic Strips Boundary Conditions of Skewed Helical Gratings on Dielectric Pipes as Cylindrical Metasurfaces for Multi-Beam Holographic Rod Antennas by Malcolm Ng Mou Kehn, Ting-Wei Lin, Wei-Chuan Chen

“…As each rod section of a certain skew angle exhibits a distinct modal attribute; this topology allows for the distribution of the cylindrical surface impedance via the effective refractive index to be modulated, as in gradient-index (GRIN) materials. …”
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Pedestrian Vision Language Model for Intentions Prediction by Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam, Tsvetomila Mihaylova, Ville Kyrki, Tomasz Piotr Kucner

“…Effective modeling of human behavior is crucial for the safe and reliable coexistence of humans and autonomous vehicles. …”
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Wildlife crossing database platform: A transdisciplinary approach to developing a tool for landscape connectivity planning and public engagement by Robert Newell, Nina‐Marie Lister, Ann Dale, Sabrina Careri

“…A research‐practitioner discussion was convened to discuss the beta version of the WCDP, as well as the key considerations and recommendations for its further development as an effective landscape connectivity planning tool. Data from the researcher‐practitioner discussion were thematically coded and analyzed to reveal 4 major themes with important implications for tool development: (1) differentiate access and functionality between users and the public groups; (2) ensure lessons and success stories are effectively shared; (3) understand the complications and challenges around communicating wildlife crossing information; and (4) recognize landscape connectivity features that do not consist of wildlife crossing infrastructure. …”
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Electronic Health Record Systems in Limited Resource Settings: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Impilo Platform by Hamufare Dumisani Mugauri, Memory Chimsimbe

“…Background: Zimbabwe has implemented the Impilo electronic health record (EHR) system since 2016 to manage the health system electronically, gather strategic information and reduce manual documentation burden.Objective: We evaluated the capacity of decentralized structures to effectively use the Impilo EHR platform, identify training needs and challenges and provide recommendations for enhancing its effectiveness and support for integrated people-centred services at the primary healthcare level.Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, mixed-method design, applying the COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation and Behaviour) model of behavioural change. …”
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Problems of achieving legal efficiency in the consideration of class actions by E. S. Trezubov, N. S. Zvyagina

“…The paper examines the procedure for considering a class action in the Russian civil procedure in order to identify obstacles to the effective application of this institution. In developed foreign legal orders, group proceedings are a popular socially significant jurisdictional procedure for considering a large number of the same type of requirements, which allows optimizing the burden on the judicial system, ensuring the achievement of legal certainty and the effectiveness of judicial protection. …”
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Stakeholders’ perspectives and experiences with the quality of essential medicines in primary healthcare facilities in Ghana: a qualitative study by Irene A. Kretchy, Gifty Sunkwa-Mills, Maxwell A. Antwi, Stanley K. Alor, Antoinette Squire, George Y. Afful, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit, Kwabena F. M. Opuni

“…Abstract Background The availability of safe, effective, and affordable medicines indicates a quality health service and the achievement of a significant target area of universal health coverage. …”
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Research on Lightweight Dynamic Security Protocol for Intelligent In-Vehicle CAN Bus by Yuanhao Wang, Yinan Xu, Zhiquan Liu, Suya Liu, Yujing Wu

“…However, existing security measures remain inadequate, and CAN bus messages lack effective security mechanisms and are vulnerable to malicious attacks. …”
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Examining School Principals’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Using ChatGPT in Education by Yasemin Cetin , Özgür Taş , Halil Alakuş , Halil İbrahim Kaplan

“…Data was analyzed using content analysis techniques by synthesizing codes into categories and themes. Results. The study revealed four major themes regarding school principals’ and teachers’ perceptions of ChatGPT: overall perceptions, perceived opportunities, perceived risks, and the effective use of ChatGPT. …”
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Th role of counselling to reduce parental fears and anxiety about newborn screening for sickle cell disease in Northern Ghana by Enyonam Duah, Samuel T. Chatio, Lucy O. Ababio, Nicola Lister, Olufolake Egbujo, Kwaku Marfo, Isaac Odame, Patrick Ansah

“…They however suggested various strategies such as adequate training and positive behaviour of counsellors to ensure effective counselling process during the SCD screening program. …”
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Radiomic-based approaches in the multi-metastatic setting: a quantitative review by Caryn Geady, Hemangini Patel, Jacob Peoples, Amber Simpson, Benjamin Haibe-Kains

“…These findings highlight dataset-specific influences, including tumor type and lesion burden, on the effectiveness of radiomic feature aggregation methods. …”
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Leveraging multimodal large language model for multimodal sequential recommendation by Zhaoliang Wang, Baisong Liu, Weiming Huang, Tingting Hao, Huiqian Zhou, Yuxin Guo

“…Finally, by jointly modeling dynamic user preferences, user profiles, and multimodal information of target item, the supervised fine-tuning is combined with multistep Chain-of-Thought prompting optimization to facilitate effective knowledge transfer from the pre-trained multimodal model to the recommendation task, which effectively alleviates the problem of insufficient utilization of multimodal interaction data in generative recommendation. …”
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Digital Intervention in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Systematic Review by Zhaowen Zhou, Cheng Deng, Dongling Yin, Qiaoxue Yang, Zhuoming Chen

“… Abstract BackgroundDevelopmental language disorder (DLD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. Effective intervention is primarily important for improving the language and communication skills of children with DLD, and strengthening these skills ensures quality of life and prevents negative effects in adulthood. …”
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Impact of China’s Diagnosis-Intervention Packet Policy on Hospitalization Costs for Patients With Malignant Tumors: A 2019–2022 Interrupted Time Series Analysis by Zhang M, Wang G, Liu H, Wen Y, Chen L

“…As the incidence of malignant tumors has increased dramatically in China, this study assesses the system’s impact on hospitalization costs for patients with malignant tumors to confirm its broader effects.Patients and Methods: Data on patients with malignant tumors (ICD codes C00-C97) were collected from a tertiary medical institution in Wuhu, using the policy’s implementation in January 2021 as the beginning timepoint. …”
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Health workforce status in India: A qualitative analysis of parliamentary questions documented in the last two decades by G Jeevitha

“…Themes and subthemes were categorized and questions were coded into nodes using Max QDA software. Results: A total of 1016 questions (0.18%) were asked with 577 (0.17%) questions from Lok Sabha and 441 (0.19%) from Rajya Sabha. …”
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Lightweight LDA-UNet for accurate and interpretable visualization of retinopathy of prematurity by Honghao Lu, Madhavi Devaraj

“…Timely prevention and treatment can effectively control its progression. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely studied in the field of ROP detection, limitations such as parameter redundancy, spatial information loss, and limited interpretability persist. …”
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Contrastive Feature Bin Loss for Monocular Depth Estimation by Jihun Song, Yoonsuk Hyun

“…These models have utilized the Scale-Invariant Logarithmic (SILog) loss for effective training, leading to significant performance improvements. …”
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Coping strategies in candidates of kidney biopsy: A qualitative content analysis study by Mohammad-Rafi Bazrafshan, Amir Mansouri, Zahra Seifi, Negar Shahkarami, Esmaeil Kavi, Noureddin Niknam, Sara Rousta

“…MAXQDA software version 10 was used to facilitate data analysis. RESULTS: The codes were classified into 3 categories and 21 subcategories. …”
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Advancing health professions education: a review of holistic admissions and competency-based admissions practices by Morgan A. Jernigan, Kira J. Carbonneau

“…Lastly, little evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of admitting students who are well-prepared for their programs when competency-based or holistic admissions are employed. …”
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VdaBSC: A Novel Vulnerability Detection Approach for Blockchain Smart Contract by Dynamic Analysis by Rexford Nii Ayitey Sosu, Jinfu Chen, Edward Kwadwo Boahen, Zikang Zhang

“…Our results demonstrate that our proposed model effectively identifies smart contract vulnerabilities.…”
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Comparison of mobile robot positioning techniques by Iuliia Yamnenko, Vladislav Osokin

“…After a chromosome is coded, the following genetic operations are performed: crossing over and mutation. …”
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